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Show [261 ..1 t'OpiCS of writers on politics. My reaf'on is, I neither 11nde1ll11nd the word, as applied hy tirofe writers, nor know where to find the thing to which they re. fer. That there may have beenb polities founded111 compaé‘t, I make no queliion ; but the hiftory of the world will fatisfy every realemble perfon, that in mm ‘ ny more cafes, perhaps thirty to one, {lates have arifen from caufes widely different. If thofe, however, who ufe the expreilion, mean no more when they fay that magiiirates have violated flit original compafl, and are therefore no longer entitled to the obedience of the fuhjeé}, than I mean when I fay, they f0 manifefily counteraét t/m great and of nmgiflracy, as renders refiltance itfelf leis a public evil than obc. dience, I {hall admit the phrafe, tho'I cannot help confidering it as both an ohfcure and an improper way of exprefling a plain fentiment. But if fome- -. {he-mid hepetervcu from violence a. It 111W be =..1l'1~ i-zfled U11}:1, on my principles, a hadI cr'111llitution c.1111 never be ame311de‘1 or improved. ..i'1‘.ili"1‘.' e1, :'1.t~ tum]1t the 2111e11d111ent by force, ti111t is, by ill-JVCI" ting the pui1lic11:311ce,:1111l 1‘111'0-11'i11gall. into eonfuli'm, is lit) :1»: to 11 a "ii-z 21' 51:13 1 t‘1: :11'111i11- 111ent 01 which we are price (1'1" 21 (111‘11111 21ml i;.11m.3_:/i;tc "iii: Y(iil'l than the good 1:11.11 (tr-11113121111116, if '2tt1122111i. 111 iii ii-ites, cfiiiccially111 all 1v111,.-1 li- 11:23, :15 1":13 21‘111'111‘116‘ iiinted, t1e1e ate coz-iilitut iormi 111mods of 16.11.11111 1111[111 alterations and it}? pl‘OVC l li'il‘. it}. 11111;...1r31-l the .1'00211era'11}1‘icr«tio:1of1l1e1e,tl1161;C11 iie 111 11112111111. 111/11L Univ ire the 11111111'1t13' ,line 2 to i1 111v tat, w ho by1 irr- ‘661'1, violmt, 111d uncoz 11‘1": m: i011:1l 11113 thod's, by 1e1‘1 C: and. much, 17:66.62; to fubvert the ettdolmzee order. thing further he meant, I {hould like, before I fay any thing for, or againfi it, to have fome evidence of the exi/fmcc of fuch a compaét, and likewife to know a little of its commit. As the matter (hands, "I confider it as one of thofe phrafes which are very convenient for the profefl‘ed difputant, becaufe they are both indefinite and dark, and may be made to Il-re a quellion may pertinently 1.11 , I - 1 Cnot l1::pp :11, mat the inn tations win-:11 give 111: ‘10 11311631121111 ‘ 111/1'1"; .9 ll ‘oveilenp the I return to my fubjeé‘t. Various circumi‘tances in diflerent countries have given rife to the efiablifhmee11 L of various forms of government. Tho' theft arel; '1rom being equal1n point of excellency, 1111111151 . the w1tl1 right to poli'cliion howcvn :1cq'uiret‘1?‘1i1.;11 it 11321161‘1/3 to ‘ legalize even ti: e/menam (,‘101g1‘:ffi9' l1. 616:1:‘ all. No 111-{F111 {ion that cannot we denominated 115162 nlg'11‘11 #511! '1 1'1)ti1e1'11'o1'1'1r,11o poii'tffion trotn whieIh‘ pr; . >1ic,1;1lit:1i of<ie~ living the i1i1:{ii11g.c<.1i"order, internaipeicc, and protefiiun, reap nothing but the created ofcurl‘es, COHftlli-z.?-11, civil war, rand the total i111'1‘6curity of CV11"; thing vaiuaijlg, properLy, liberty antiiizlf, can bcie‘raiizcd by a {entimcnt founded in I: regard to public 11.1.1101. lity. gcod requires, that except in cafes of extremity, each \1" .1.., " (nigi nawd a ‘ But docs notthislei1ti.r1c11‘1," {.131 0111‘ .17'1'1'1‘13'1'3: ‘, ‘rticrihc 9 plex it, are very apt to miflead the unwary. ~6vvr) hue . 1 they, 11y 22£1111111g :1 1 11111111111 power, bounds of the conllitutim, {ix-.311 by ‘itnmernorial cull-11111, by fundmnenud 17111165, or by comprehend under them all the chimeras of his own imagination. Many fuch have been introduced into this controverfy, which, as they only {erve to per- i ) ' 7p momm ies 1 , C |